Labs in Kyushu University, Institute for Sustainable Hydrogen Research

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A lab that analyzes the sustainability of production and consumption.

The Nakaishi Lab studies analysis for making production and consumption sustainable from three angles: production activities, consumer behavior, and supply chains. Socio-economic systems built on mass production and mass consumption bring with them side effects in the form of various environmental and social problems, such as climate change, resource depletion, air pollution, and child labor. The SDGs, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, set "Responsible Consumption and Production" as Goal 12, with the aim of ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns. The lab's website introduces it under the name "Nakaishi Lab."

#Sustainable production and consumption #Supply chain #Data envelopment analysis

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A lab exploring technology commercialization and entrepreneurship, which connect university technology to business.

Professor Megumi Takata studies "technology commercialization," which turns technologies created at universities into businesses, and "entrepreneurship," meaning entrepreneurial activity. Management of technology (MOT), management of industry-academia collaboration, technology transfer, and intellectual property management are also listed as research subjects. Prof. Takata's papers examine the behavior of people who handle university technology transfer, and how education affects the intention to start a company and the actions taken to do so. At Kyushu University's Department of Industrial Management (the business school), Prof. Takata teaches courses including management of industry-academia collaboration.

#Technology commercialization #Entrepreneurship #Industry-academia collaboration

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The lab aims to build fuel cells that operate at intermediate temperatures using ceramics that conduct hydrogen ions.

The Hyodo Lab develops ceramic materials that conduct hydrogen ions and electrons. Its goal is to realize proton-conducting ceramic fuel cells that operate in an intermediate temperature range of about 200 to 400°C. Fuel cells currently in practical use are expensive, so there is an urgent need to lower the operating temperature to an intermediate range, reduce material and maintenance costs, and make inexpensive fuel cells widely available. The lab belongs to the Energy System Design Research Center of the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER), Kyushu University.

#Proton-conducting ceramics #Fuel cells #Machine learning

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The lab aims to make perovskite solar cells more efficient and more durable.

The Matsushima Lab studies solar cells, which convert solar energy into electrical energy. In particular, the lab aims to establish the science and technology for making solution-processed perovskite solar cells more efficient, more durable, and larger in area. Driving a perovskite solar cell in reverse makes it emit light, so LEDs and lasers are also important research topics. The lab belongs to the Energy Conversion Science Unit of the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research at Kyushu University, and its graduate students belong to the Department of Automotive Science in the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences.

#Perovskite solar cells #LEDs and lasers #Hybrid materials

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The lab develops organic materials and applies them to photocatalysts and organic devices.

The Watanabe Lab develops new organic materials and conducts research on functional organic devices. Its goal is to bring out the properties of organic materials and combine them with inorganic materials to create devices with unprecedented properties. Toward photocatalytic water splitting, the lab studies the design and synthesis of organic dyes and interactions at the surfaces and interfaces of materials. People interested in research or study, and those who would like to visit the lab, are invited to get in touch.

#Photocatalysis #Water splitting #Organic semiconductors

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The lab controls the structure of ceramics through liquid-phase synthesis to enhance functions such as environmental remediation.

The Environmentally Friendly Ceramics Lab studies how to control structure, from the arrangement of atoms in crystals to the shape of particles, through liquid-phase synthesis using solutions. It aims to enhance functions such as adsorption and photodecomposition properties, corrosion resistance to water vapor, and electrochemical properties. By examining crystal and surface structures, pore structures, and the coordination states of constituent elements, the lab builds an understanding of the relationship between structure and function from the viewpoint of the synthesis process. The lab's website is shared with the Ishihara Lab.

#Liquid-phase synthesis #Environmental remediation #Ceramics

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A lab that studies the strength of minute materials such as thin metal films.

The Metallic Micro/Nano Materials Strength Lab mainly studies metal thin films, with the aim of clarifying the strength of minute metallic materials. The lab evaluates strength experimentally through tensile tests that pull on thin films, fatigue tests that apply repeated loading, and creep tests that apply a sustained load. The lab's website introduces it under the name "Solid Mechanics Lab," together with Professor Shigeru Hamada. The website states that its ultimate goal is to make mechanical structures operate "safely."

#Metal thin films #Fatigue #Creep

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高分子複合材料トライボロジー（LI WENXIAO） (introduction coming soon)

Tribological properties of polymer composites in hydrogen atmospheres (resin composites, friction, wear, piston rings)

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A lab that measures and studies the thermophysical properties of high-pressure hydrogen and refrigerants.

The Thermophysical Properties of Hydrogen Mixtures Lab studies the thermophysical properties of fluids such as hydrogen and refrigerants. Kyushu University's researcher information lists research on the thermophysical properties of high-pressure hydrogen, refrigerants, and mixed fluids, as well as the development of micro heat exchange devices, in the profile. The researcher information also includes a link to the website of the "Thermo-Fluid Physics Lab" in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering.

#Thermophysical properties #High-pressure hydrogen #Refrigerants

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A tribology lab that studies friction, wear, and lubrication, from fundamentals to applications.

The Tribology Lab studies tribology, the field that deals with problems of friction, wear, and lubrication. The lab works with universities, research institutes, and companies in Japan and abroad on challenges ranging from fundamental ones, such as exploring and clarifying phenomena at friction surfaces, to applied ones, such as solving practical problems. Its research themes include friction and wear in hydrogen, rolling contact fatigue of bearings, and DLC coatings. The lab holds the "Tribology Discussion Meeting," inviting speakers from outside the university to give talks.

#Tribology #Hydrogen #Rolling contact fatigue